2010-Mar-28: matplotlib is a very powerful system for producing publication quality 2D graphics (including contour plots). It also has a mode (called pyloab) that emulates matlab graphics. If you do a manual install of this you'll need to install numpy and then matplotlib. Their official How To is here. [6422]

2009-Dec-24: Yes, it is now possible to (somewhat) develop applications for the iPhone using Python. The game "Elephants!" was coded in tinypy, translated into C++ and then compiled with Xcode for the iPhone. [8862]

2009-Jan-28: Stacked graphs using matplot lib is used to create stacked or stream graphs (those graphs of how events change over time that look like a flowing stream from above - especially one that's carrying a coloured oily film with it). [7498][1]

2008-Dec-19: pyscanning is a wrapper module for sane and twain to allow Python code to do document scanning in a platform independent fashion. [7376]

2008-Dec-09: The Enable project is a multi-platform object drawing library build on top of Kiva. Kiva is a multi-platform implementation of DisplayPDF (which is used in Apple's Quartz 2-D graphics API). [7326]

2008-Oct-30: Using matplotlib to generate and display mathematical equations as svg graphics from Python. Turns out that matplotlib contains a port to Python of the math layout algorithms from TeX. [7124]

2008-Oct-29: PyCha, is a module for doing charts that uses the Cairo library. [3468]

2008-Oct-25: img2txt takes a JPEG or other image file and converts it into colorized ASCII art. [7096]

2008-Oct-18: A look at how to use HSL gradients to colour buttons and other display elements to achieve the modern shiny interface look. [7047]

2008-Oct-06: Ned Batchelder'sAptus is a Mandelbrot set graphics creator written in Python. He ran into problems with display redraw flickering on Windows (but not on the Mac) and discusses a solution using double buffering for wxPython here. It is written in Python with a C extension for speed and uses the wxPython, Numpy and PIL packages. [5354]

2008-Oct-03: Using alpha blend to show the focus on a particular graph curve in a plot with multiple curves. [6981]

2008-Sep-28: svglib is a module for reading and converting SVG based on the ReportLab toolkit. [6934]

2008-Sep-13: cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos and applications in Python. [6848]

2008-May-12: pylo allows you to write Silo visualization files that are used by the Vislt program for large-scale data visualization. [6139][1]

2008-May-12: FusionCharts has a free, flash-based charting component for web applications that can be used with Python. [6138]

2008-May-01: PyAMF provides Action Message Format support for Python that is compatible with Flash Player. The PyAMF test suite has been run on Google's App Engine. [6014]

2008-Apr-30: gheat a Python heatmap for Google Maps, this creates and superimposes a thermal layer on top of a Google Map. Some of this is done using PIL. In a later version Pygame was used to accelerate the rendering process. [5826]